Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government

9:00 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

There is a public private partnership programme for 1,500 units in total. Rather than waiting until the we fully bottomed out on sites to contribute 1,500 units, we have broken it into three different phases. The site to which Deputy Rock refers is in bundle 1, as we call it. We have also identified the sites for bundle 2 and we are in the process of identifying the sites the bundle 3. The National Development Finance Agency is acting as financial adviser to the Department on the project. There is a little bit of further work to do on bundle 1, but it is likely that the tendering process for bundle 1 will kick off soon, if not this side of Easter then very quickly after Easter.